Aegean Sea · NT
Patmos
The small Aegean island where the exiled apostle John received the visions of Revelation.
Today: Patmos, Greece
Patmos is a small, rocky island in the Aegean Sea, about 37 miles southwest of Miletus. Roman authorities used it as a place of banishment for political and religious offenders. The apostle John was exiled there 'on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus,' probably under the emperor Domitian around AD 95.
On the Lord's Day, in the Spirit, John heard a great voice like a trumpet behind him and turned to see the risen Christ — and the visions that follow became the book of Revelation. Patmos is therefore the geographic anchor of the Bible's final book, the place from which the church's great apocalypse was written to the seven churches of Asia.
Key verses
"I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patiencewhich arein Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus."
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"I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."
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"Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter;"
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